The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-04
PRICE FIVE CEN rs.

yaller border silk pocket Handkerchief and my
| new neck ribbin Mr.. Turnpseed GIN me.
had to leave out my fine cloak" and thar she
talked and went on till L had to tell her she
| better hush folks in the kars was a iistenn al
her She lowed twasnt none er Their business,
she didn't keer who hearn her. She's like her
NAV when she's mad she talks loud and don't
keer who hearn her.. Well fur as psckin
she'd as well to er pitched 'em in like shucks
| in q hamper basket, for when she got thar they
looked liked they'd been in a harry-cane; the
cloak was on top, the grannydyne at the bot
shoe and that cost 25 cents, was broke
and split all over ever thing and done
tuck the color smack out'n her new neck
ribbin and silk hankercher, and barda-
| him look pine blank like he had the yaler-
| janders. She taken the pictur and sot down
on the floor and bust right out into cry, and
lowed: And had to pay that thar niger
! quarter for fetchn' of my trunk, lis tho
| same rs If he hadn't busted il open and ruint
| ever last thing in it.
"Them niggers tries to see how hard they can
! fling your trunks-they ruther bust EN- as not"
| Then she looked at the ruint pctur' and boo
hooed agin, and if you could er saw it you'd or
! cried too.
At Malvern whar you change kars for Hot
Springs the train was behind and we had to
wait five hours.
We seed sign fore hotel door,
Persons waiting FOR trains can occupy the
| parlor without charge"
| A boy about the size OF Miss Gooden's SAM
my, land he was IA las June) was spellin'
| ont the sign through his nose
(charge.)"
without charge" says he; t'that means
| you don't have to pay nothin'." We didn't
| know thar was soul in that crowd that wa
had ever saw before, tel the boy whined out:
Come on, NAV; come on-you don't have to
| pay nothin'-less go over thar" And who
| ShOuld his ha hut old Miaa
! same oman me and Cousin Pink come from
the exposition with to Dallas two year ago and
had SIGH time with at the Grand Windsor
/ hotel. cts Miss Slack" says Cousin Pink
'as I'm alive it's Miss Slack" Yes, it was
her with that same bag and basket of yittles,
and quilt and piller, and little Sa' Ann and the
baby and the little fee dorg.
! About that time the old critter seed us and
| come flynn she turn't loose the baby, drapt
the quilt and basket, showed Sa' Ann and the
tce dog outn her way, and jumpt at me the
| gladdest you ever seen. "Whar did you uns
come from" says she, "and which away air
! you gwine?'
eve are gwine to Hot Springs" says r.
! ME too" says she. 'I'm agwne on account
of my little Sa' AIMS SO eyes. wouldn't or
| went nary step, but the dock lowed we'd be-
oblege to do sump'n or she d go plum bline.
| And my ole man he wanted me to go to git
shet or these yer corns en- my right foot, can't
war no shoe to fit, and / has fetch OF tho
| rheumatic and new-ralogy too, and they say
hits powerful good for airy one of them they
say hitll bust up most any ailment flesh is
ar to, and If you could er saw boy over thar
war lives had both laigs drawed plum double
fore he went there last year, and the hot water
straighteded em out all right and he can walk
| now good as any body Why, hit pretty nigh
works merrieles. But am si1eered Of Ill; fred
II IL was to come yethquake, a volcanner
and swaler you up In fire and water ate L gives
me the trimbles to think about it. When thew
fus tole me about that thar water a bilin' mp
outn the groun' so hot you could cook aig OK
| make coffee 'th'out fire, says to my ole man,
says !, that's too nigh torment to suit me.
You don't ketch me gwine in a mile Of it,
says l; And somebody lowed they had
place close thar name "The Devils Half Acre"
tole 'em all, says |, Of that water is as hot as
they says 1t is, the devils got more any half
| acre over thar, says /.
| "Lor jist to think you'uns is gwine to Hot
Springs and haint got no corns nor rheumatic
nor nothin'-pears like folks is got plum
| maniac for gwine TO Hot Springs. Come here
Sa' Ann, and lemme me show Betsy your SO
eyes"
That oman never slSasely stopt talkin' o
| minute while we was thar.
After we got to Hot Springs and seen the
| smoke risin' out'n tho ground we thought
| like Judge Helm: This Is the place where
| the old moster keeps his fireworks"
| We perused aroun and seed ever thing
even to the chinkapin tree whar the man hung
his sef, and we hearn en- say moron thous-
and folks had went to see il. Ever body wa
IHoJ peafeu 10 DC a bObln OF n TN cOffee pot.
but we axed and found out they was made with
tops TO keep the water holland 1t was so hot
| when it got to the house you'd have to cool it
| fore you could drink 1t. We went fust to the
| "Corn Hole" whar they say the water has
| tuck off the wuss sorter c0rns. thought about
| old Miss Freshours and how hern hurt her
when it was fixen to rain, and wished she
| could try it.
We seen the ten fine bath houses and the
Mud Hole" and the United States army and
navy hospital, and the fine hotels, the Arling-
| ton the Plateau, the Avenue and all, and went
| out to the park, and to tho Thousand Drip
| ping Springs" and place they call Heli's
| Half Acre"
Then we went to ride longer Mrs. and
she taken us to the healing we'll and gave us a
| good drink of cold water, strong of iron like
! Chandler Springs. SO if you don't want to
drink the hot water you can go thar and git it
| cold. tell you, Hot Springs is great place
| for the afflicted, they comes thar from all over
| the word to battle in that water and git cured.
| You see 'em lame, and deaf, and blind, a walk
ing ON crutches, and sticks, and q limpin' ON
| wooden legs; some with and legs all
| drawed up, toted about in cheers or rolled
around in little Wagons, and some is toted In
| the arms, and they all goes and battles in that
hot water; some at The high price bath
houses, some takes the electric baths,
and some baths at the mud hole; even to tho
rich ones goes thar, kase they say it's the best.
| IL belongs to the government and is free to all.
| We met old Miss Slack a-comin from thar one
| mornin' and she lowed, "You'uns can go to
the old hole and the Ozark or any whar's else
you're mind to and pay out your money for q
| bath, but as fur me, goes to the mud hole.
| They say 1t belongs TO the governor and he
| let's 'em have 1t free. You don't ketch ma
a-fingin' away money when thar's anything
| Free"
faint no trouble TO git place TO stay most
every house is a hotel boardin' house or got
rooms to rent.
Their is most as many boardin' houses as
Their Is mimi companies, the men folks is all
a runnin wild over silver and lead mines close
to thar.
/ wish / had time TO tell you all about tha
United States army and navy hospital, how
fine and clean every thing Is. It's all bran new
and the sick soldiers is tuck keer Of some Of
'em better'n If they was at home. You can
can stand on the front piazzy and see mighty
nigh all over town, but the best place to see is
that or observatory" as old Miss Slack
calls it, on top Of Hot Springs mountain. Wa
clum up thar and it made our head SWIM its
eighty feet high.
We was away yonder above the pine trees,
an looked down Oh tops Of the houses
The city is built right down in in the valley
betwixt the Hot Springs mountain and the
| West mountain and Is three miles, or better,